{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Proverbs",
 "chapter": 23,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:"
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:"
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:"
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men."
  },
  {
   "v": 29,
   "t": "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?"
  },
  {
   "v": 30,
   "t": "They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine."
  },
  {
   "v": 31,
   "t": "Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright."
  },
  {
   "v": 32,
   "t": "At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."
  },
  {
   "v": 33,
   "t": "Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things."
  },
  {
   "v": 34,
   "t": "Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."
  },
  {
   "v": 35,
   "t": "They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."
  }
 ],
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